The TelegraphNowLetters: Conservative MPs have forgotten the values they should be representingThe Telegraph - By Letters to the EditorSIR – Too many Tory MPs, and not a few ministers, have used the party to further their careers and are not true Conservative believers (“Britain’s failed ruling class would rather destroy the country than fix its problems”, Comment, May 30). The trouble with being a broad church is that you end up …
The Telegraph5 hours agoConservatives should pledge to scrap the death taxThe Telegraph - Telegraph ViewInheritance tax is unpopular, complex, and morally wrong. Britain should follow the likes of Sweden, Norway and New Zealand in abolishing it
The Telegraph3 hours agoLetters: Local authorities must answer for the dangerous state of Britain’s roadsThe Telegraph - By Letters to the EditorSIR – Joanna Dakin (Letters, May 30) is right: quite apart from the failure of local authorities to address the pothole problem, this is now being exacerbated by their negligence in keeping white lines and yellow box junctions in a condition that enables road safety. In my village there is a very …
The Telegraph1 day agoSacred Mysteries: not an apse so much as a collapseThe TelegraphThe medieval tower and spire of St James’s, Dry Doddington, leans notably. The Lincolnshire church is 5.1 degrees from perpendicular compared with 3.97 degrees for the baptistery tower at Pisa. Denis Dunstone has made a coloured watercolour sketch of St James’s, along with 190 other Anglican …
The Telegraph1 day agoThe Covid inquiry is descending into farceThe Telegraph - Telegraph ViewMinisters have only themselves to blame for giving it such a broad remit
The Telegraph1 day agoLetters: The Conservative answer to the cost of living crisis is to make work payThe Telegraph - By Letters to the EditorSIR – I read with horror that Rishi Sunak wants to cap food prices (report, May 29). This Government is more Left-wing than anything since 1979. Margaret Thatcher abolished all these socialist ideas because they don’t work. Inflation in food prices is caused by energy costs and will abate when it has …